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26-639: Millville Senior High School is a comprehensive community public high school located in Millville , in Cumberland County , in the U.S. state of New Jersey , serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of Millville Public Schools . The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1943. Maurice River Township sends 180 students who attend

52-588: A joint project of American and Russian students to learn the science behind designing a toy, and about the study of space. The Millville Senior High School Thunderbolts compete in the American Division of the Cape-Atlantic League , an athletic conference comprised of parochial and public high schools located in Atlantic , Cape May , Cumberland and Gloucester counties that operates under the supervision of

78-511: A new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 308th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 306th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 289th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 295th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Millville High School is a participant in the NASA Toys in Space program,

104-545: A score of 22–16 in the tournament final. Field hockey coach Claudia E. McCarthy, inducted into the New Jersey Coaches Hall of Fame in 1990, won her 500th game in 2011 in her 41st season as a coach, with a win against Middle Township High School . She became the fifth coach to reach 500 field hockey victories. The girls track team won the indoor relay state championship in Group IV in 2019. The girls spring track team

130-583: A strength-of-program component. The league operates under the auspices of the Leagues and Conferences Committee of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association . Three new schools (who are debut programs) were added to the league in the 2024 season. Those schools are Mastery High School of Camden, first-year program Atlantic County Institute of Technology , and KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy. New Egypt High School left

156-626: Is important to incorporate digital learning tools and personalized education plans, which allow a more equitable education system and ensure all students can access high-quality education. This article relating to education in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . West Jersey Football League The West Jersey Football League (or the WJFL) is a 96-school superconference that stretches from Princeton, New Jersey , to Wildwood, New Jersey , encompassing schools from

182-410: Is more likely to happen bullying issues, and schools in low-income areas tend to have bullying in school. The future of comprehensive high schools may involve reforms that deal with the limitations of the current tracking systems. By reducing the hierarchy of tracks and implementing more flexible courses, comprehensive high schools will be more supportive of students from diverse backgrounds. Also, it

208-828: The Colonial Valley Conference , the Burlington County Scholastic League , the Olympic Conference (New Jersey) , the Tri-County Conference (New Jersey) , the Colonial Conference (New Jersey) , and the Cape-Atlantic League . The WJFL is made up of 16 divisions: (American, Capitol, Classic, Colonial, Constitution, Continental, Diamond, Freedom, Independence, Liberty, Memorial, National, Patriot, Royal, United, and Valley) with divisional alignments being based on school size, geography, and

234-488: The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 1,260 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2022-23 school year as South, Group 4 for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,060 to 5,049 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the American Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconference and

260-453: The 2017 game. The rivalry with Vineland was listed at 6th on NJ.com 's 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football". The boys' tennis team was the state overall co-champion in 1950 with Asbury Park High School , the first year that the state title was determined by playoffs. The boys track team won the Group IV spring / outdoor track state championship in 1970, 1998 (as co-champion), 1999 and 2001. The football team won

286-670: The NJSIAA South Jersey Group IV state sectional title in 1975 and the South Jersey Group V title in 2016. The 1975 team finished the season with an 11-0 record after winning the South Jersey Group IV state sectional title by defeating defending champion Brick Township High School 22-12 in the championship game to snap Brick's 20-game winning streak. The team won the South Jersey Group V state sectional championship in 2016, defeating Toms River High School North by

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312-652: The WJFL in 2024 to join the Shore Conference . The league covers teams from counties ranging from Mercer to Cape May. The league comprises 96 teams from public and private high schools in South Jersey and is the second-largest high school football league in New Jersey . The league was created in 2010 as a better way to balance teams that had faced imbalances in the size and quality of teams within conferences. While some regretted

338-420: The academic divisions in the education system. There are critics of the tracking system that it affects students placed on lower tracks by providing less challenging education, lowering their self-worth and self-esteem, which can restrict their potential academic achievement, personal growth, and future aspirations. Other than the comprehensive high school, there are many other types of high schools. Studies show

364-400: The comprehensive high school. Other than studying the outcomes, researchers examined the bullying problem between these two types of high schools and revealed that students in career academy high schools experience less bullying than students in comprehensive high schools. The potential factors are the size of the school and income level. Comprehensive high schools are usually larger, which

390-477: The difference in multiple aspects of the difference comparing comprehensive high schools and STEM-focused high schools or career academy high schools. In comparison with STEM -focused high schools , comprehensive high schools don't show a significant difference in providing STEM opportunities for students, which breaks people's assumption that specialized programs must offer more in that area. In comparison with career academy high schools , researchers compared

416-596: The district's high schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship, before the Woodbine district switched to have students attend Middle Township High School starting with freshmen starting school in the 2013–14 school year. As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,640 students and 70.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 23.4:1. There were 932 students (56.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 186 (11.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. In 2016,

442-555: The district's high schools, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Maurice River Township School District . Commercial Township and Lawrence Township also send students to the district's high schools; The sending districts filed suit in 2009, challenging the way in which the Millville district charges for students from outside the district to attend the school. Students from Woodbine had attended

468-530: The loss of old rivalries, the conference made an effort to establish crossover games between teams that had traditions under which they had played each other regularly in the past. With a decline in the number of student athletes playing football at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North that would be inadequate for the school to field a team of its own, the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District attempted to combine

494-598: The school board decided to create a single principal position for all high school students as it had plans to consolidate the two high schools. That year Kathy Procopio, the principal, chose to retire. David Gentile, the superintendent, stated that the retirement made the district's principal consolidation plans more complex. As part of an expansion and renovation project overseen by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority that ultimately cost $ 145 million and had been scheduled to start in 2017,

520-513: The school's capacity was to be doubled to accommodate up to 2,300 students, allowing all of the freshmen and sophomore classes that had been at Memorial High School to be consolidated at the Senior High School building; for the 2017–18 school year, all high school students were shifted into Millville High School. The completion of the project was marked in September 2023, which ultimately doubled

546-512: The size of the building and added 200,000 square feet (19,000 m) of space to the facility that had opened in 1964 to replace the original high school building that was completed in 1925. The school was the 291st-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using

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572-486: The students’ engagement in college and career readiness activities as an outcome of adopting students in future preparation. The researchers found that students in schools with high-level fidelity NAF (an organization aid to evaluate and improve schools) have higher engagement than students in comprehensive high school, while students in schools with low or medium fidelity in the NAF don't show a significant difference from students in

598-399: The teams from the two schools to have them operate as a single co-operative football team for the 2017–18 school year based at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South . Given that the size of the schools is larger than the threshold established by the state for co-op programs (North is classified as Group 3 and South as Group 4 based on the size of the enrollment of each school), the proposal

624-478: Was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 890 to 1,298 students. Since 1893, Vineland High School , in Vineland , has participated in an annual Thanksgiving football game with Millville High School. The rivalry is one of the oldest public high school rivalries in the United States and the state's oldest, with Vineland leading the series 64-63-19, heading into

650-712: Was rejected in a 76–16 vote by the West Jersey Football League and by the Leagues and Conferences Committee of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, before an appeal of the decision was rejected by the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education . In August 2017, the district announced that WW-P North would cancel its program. The members of the canceled program will be eligible to play for

676-730: Was the Group IV state champion in 2019. The principal is Jaime Sutton. Her administration team includes three vice principals. Comprehensive high school The tracking system is a way to group students into different class levels based on their academic abilities in comprehensive high school. For example, the English course is a mandatory course for all students; there are four tracks: gifted, advanced, average, and remedial. This tracking system allows teachers to guide students more efficiently with customized learning needs and speeds and make sure students match courses with their ability levels. However, it also brings equity problems that reinforce

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